By the scale of that geography, which is the true geography of our time, the ship that burns in the water with its cargo of dead crewmen is no farther away from us than the television screen in our living room which shows us the scene.
With hundreds of miles of sandstone and granite cliffs, cattail-lined riverbanks, former factory towns, orchards, farmland and forests, the scale of its geography and the scope of its history are daunting.
By the scale of the new geography, in which time and distance are measured in light-years, and explosive energy is measured in millions of tons of TNT, the distance across the blue ocean is reduced to nothing, & t earth itself shrinks to the size of a pea.
But despite India's sheer scale, both in terms of geography and population, its stock market remains puny by comparison with those of developed economies like the UK or Japan.
Understanding the domestic components of GVCs is especially important for larger economies such as China, the USA, India, and Japan, where there may be large variations in economic scale, geography of manufacturing, and development stages at the domestic regional level.
Further work on the fine scale geography of differentiation using COI and other loci is warranted in order to discern the causes of different levels of dispersal interruption among species.
The effects of geography were still evident at this scale, however, despite the fact that they exhibited lower correlation values (Table 4).
Sayre, one of the foremost theorists of 'scale' in the discipline of geography today, invokes the phrase 'politics of scale' in the book's title.
Our results indicate this need not be true: what is perceived as genetic structure because of geography or language variation on a large scale can in fact be explained equally well by social factors acting on local scale.
Mr. Li did not change the wheeler-dealer culture of Hutchison -- only its scale and geography.
